Bottle.



No, 831,237. PATENTED'SEPT. 1B, 1906. B. ORMBROD.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.23.1906.

4 Jul/674501.

THE NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n. c

BENJAMIN ORMEROD, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed April 23, 1906. Serial No. 313.158.

New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and 1 State of Massachusetts, have invented cer- 1 tain new and useful Improvements in Bottles,

' of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a bottle which cannot be refilled after being emptied. This object I attain by means of the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of my improved bottle, showing the devices which render it non-refillable in position. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, of the device which prevents the 'valve from being reached or displaced. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side view of one of the elements shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a side view in vertical section of the valve-seat.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

The letter a represents the bottle, having an offset or shoulder formed about midway of its neck and having the inside of said neck slightly tapering toward the body of said bottle.

a is a circular piece of sheet metal provided with the aperture 0 and having the arms at formed integrally therewith, the ends of said arms being bent outward and slightly upward, forming hooks, as at d.

e is a circular piece of metal or diaphragm, having the upwardly projecting arms 6, which are adapted to enter and be secured in the apertures g in the disk 0.

h is the valve-seat, made of sheet-metal,, cup-shaped,

and provided. with the aperture i in its top and the slits 7c in its sides.

m is the valve, consisting, preferably, of a ball of glass of suitable size to fill the valveseat opening t.

The operation of the device is as follows: The bottle having been filled, the valve-seat is forced to its place in the neck of the bottle and is held there by the spring of its slitted sides. The valve m is then dropped into lace. The device 0 is then forced down into the neck of the bottle until the hooks (1 engage With the offset 1), which hooks prevent the device from being remo ved from the neck of the bottle. The diaphragm e prevents any device, or instrument from being introduced through the aperture 0 to hold the valve from its seat, so as to make it possible to refill the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bottle, having the inside of its neck slightly tapered toward its body and provided about midway of its length with an offset or shoulder; a valve-seat and valve between said offset and the bottle-body; a disk of metal or other suitable material, having an aperture in its center, and provided with arms having hooks on their lower ends adapted to spring into and engage with said offset or shoulder; and. a diaphragm of less diameter than the inside of the bottleneck, rigidly arranged slightly below the aperture in said disk, as, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN ORMEROD.

Witnesses:

FRANK Mv SPARROW, JULIA. A. BEAUVAIS. 

